What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

A warrior of light needs both patience and speed. He treats each situation as if it were unique.

Few take up the burden of their own victory; most give up their dreams when these become impossible.

If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence

There is no better time than the autumn to begin forgetting the things that trouble us, allowing them to fall away like dried leaves. There is no better time to dance again, to make the most of every crumb of sunlight and warm body and soul with its rays before it falls asleep and becomes only a dim light bulb in the skies.

I refuse to walk faintly through life only to arrive safely at death!

He is also wary of people who think they know the path.